I can't let go of them - the good, right things-because if I do I'll turn into a cloud and I'll float away, and a storm will come and blow me to nothing.

Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing-a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better.

Nobody can know about her 'things', because then they won't count. And if she doesn't do them, she's sure everything will go wrong.

Then she meets Xavier. He has his own kind of special missions to make life better. When they do these missions together, Aster feels free, but if she stops doing her good, right things will everything fall apart?

WINNER OF THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 - YOUNGER READERS

Author: Kate Gordon

Format: Paperback

Pages: 192

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ASTER'S GOOD, RIGHT THINGS HAS ACHIEVED THE FOLLOWING:

Winner - CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers 2021

Winner - Australian Association of Family Therapists Award for Children's Literature 2021

Shortlisted - Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards 2021

Shortlisted - Adaptable (Queensland Writer's Centre), 2021

Shortlisted - Tasmanian Literary Award 2022

Adaptation - was adapted into a short play by Meerkat Productions and toured schools in 2021 (tour cut short by Covid border closures etc.)